Articles Published in 2012

CollabRx partners with Life Technologies in molecular diagnostics

Friday, October 5, 2012 08:00 AM

CollabRx, a provider of cloud-based expert systems to inform health care decision-making, has formed a multi-year partnership agreement with Life Technologies, global biotechnology tools company for development and commercialization of CollabRx technology and content resources to be used in conjunction with Life Technologies' global cancer diagnostics development and its laboratory developed test services business.

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Takeda, Advinus initiated multi-year drugs discovery collaboration

Thursday, October 4, 2012 02:19 PM

Takeda Pharmaceutical, a Japanese research-based pharmaceutical company, and Advinus Therapeutics, a privately held research-based pharmaceutical company based in India, have entered into an agreement to initiate a three-year discovery collaboration focused on novel targets for major therapeutic areas, including inflammation, CNS and metabolic diseases.

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Risk gene for Alzheimer's disease associated with lower brain amyloid

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:57 PM

Researchers investigating a known gene risk factor for Alzheimer's disease discovered it is associated with lower levels of beta amyloid—a brain protein involved in Alzheimer's—in cognitively healthy older people.

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Y-Prime, Veeva partner on cloud-based enterprise content management transformation

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:35 PM

Y-Prime, an enterprise consulting and eClinical products company based in Malvern, Penn., has established a systems integration partnership with Veeva Systems, a global cloud-based business solutions company based in Pleasanton, Calif.

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PTC Therapeutics appoints Zeldis to board of directors

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:14 PM

PTC Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company based in South Plainfield, N.J., has appointed Jerome B. Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D., to the company's board of directors.

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Epizyme earns $4M in milestones from GSK for novel HMT therapeutics

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:52 AM

Epizyme, a pharmaceutical company focused personalized therapeutics for cancer, received a $4 million milestone payments from collaborator GlaxoSmithKline based on the achievement of pre-clinical milestones.

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Theravance, Alfa Wassermann to develop and commercialize velusetrag for gastroparesis

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:28 AM

Theravance, a biopharmaceutical company based in San Franciso, and Alfa Wassermann, a pharmaceutical company based on West Caldwell, N.J., have entered into an exclusive development and commercialization agreement in certain countries for velusetrag, Theravance's investigational 5-HT4 agonist in development for gastrointestinal motility disorders.

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VentiRx, Celgene collaborate on novel TLR8 agonist VTX-2337 for cancer

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:03 AM

VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on novel Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonists and antagonists, has formed an exclusive, world-wide collaboration with Celgene, an integrated global biopharmaceutical company, for the development of VTX-2337, a highly potent and selective TLR8 agonist for the treatment of cancer.

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BMS, Sanofi restructure alliance agreement

Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:36 AM

Global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb and global healthcare company Sanofi have restructured their successful long-term alliance following the loss of exclusivity of Plavix and Avapro/Avalide in many major markets.

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Sanofi to acquire Genfar

Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:04 AM

Global healthcare company Sanofi has signed an agreement to acquire Genfar, a pharmaceuticals manufacturer headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. With this acquisition, Sanofi will expand its portfolio of affordable pharmaceuticals in Latin America.

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